Hi Irina,
I'm no barcode expert but one I tried looked fine to me.
Have you zoomed in on the barcode in the pdf document. If you view it normally the viewer may approximate the lines and therefore distort it.
If there is still a problem maybe you could send a small fo and pdf to demonstrate the problem.
An alternative may be to make the whole barcode larger, multiply by a factor of ten say. Then place the barcode in an svg transform. This way the values in pdf are less likely to be round off and the image will be scaled.
On 2002.02.06 16:50 Irina Grigorieva wrote:
Hi,
I faced a problem. I need to generate barcodes (it is not a problem) and draw it into PDF. That is, to draw several rectangles... The FO document looks like:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <fo:root xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"; xmlns:fox=http://xml.apache.org/fop/extensions> ... <svg:svg xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"; width="300" height="300"> ... <svg:rect x="0" y="0" stroke-width="0" stroke="none" fill="black" height="50" width="1"/> ... </svg:svg> </fo:root>
When setting small _and_ fractional values to rectangle widths, they are displayed incorrectly: the rectangles that should be the same widths differs in real widths about.. several times.
However, the value "1" is displayed correctly.
As far as I could understand, the problem is FOP precision is 72 dots per inch, that's why any fractional values like 0.5..1.5 produces huge distortions.
Am I right? Is it a feature of SVG, a feature of FOP? Can I use something different than Batik for SVG? Would generating images solve the problem of precision (if then place these images into PDF with FOP)?
Please help.
BR, Irina.
